Azure Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 19 35
Rank change year-on-year -5 +16 -28
Contract jobs citing Azure 104 20 28
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 11.22% 7.38% 6.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 25.06% 24.69% 25.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 17 23
10th Percentile £400 £450 -
25th Percentile £454 £475 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £510 £425
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% +20.00% -29.17%
75th Percentile £592 £544 £544
90th Percentile £688 £650 £1,100
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -13.64%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Yorkshire

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 415 81 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 44.77% 29.89% 24.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 64 82
10th Percentile £357 £289 £188
25th Percentile £413 £450 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £515 £519
Median % change year-on-year -5.44% -0.72% -5.68%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £588
90th Percentile £639 £646 £635
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £13.50
Median hourly rate - - £14.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.00%
75th Percentile - - £14.50
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £56.50 £32.81 £15.00
% change year-on-year +72.20% +118.73% -70.00%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Azure job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 20 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 20 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield -5 101 £510 - 29
Doncaster - 2 £525 - 4
Azure
Yorkshire

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (5.77%) Confluence
2 5 (4.81%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.96%) nginx
3 1 (0.96%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.96%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.96%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.96%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 69 (66.35%) AWS
2 62 (59.62%) GCP
3 21 (20.19%) Entra ID
4 16 (15.38%) OpenShift
5 12 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (8.65%) GitHub
6 9 (8.65%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (7.69%) Power Platform
8 7 (6.73%) SaaS
9 5 (4.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 5 (4.81%) OneDrive
10 4 (3.85%) Azure AKS
10 4 (3.85%) ChatGPT
10 4 (3.85%) Serverless
11 3 (2.88%) Akamai
11 3 (2.88%) Azure Functions
11 3 (2.88%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (2.88%) Azure Storage
11 3 (2.88%) Cloudflare
11 3 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (12.50%) Firewall
2 8 (7.69%) DNS
3 6 (5.77%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.85%) HTTP
4 4 (3.85%) Kerberos
4 4 (3.85%) VPN
5 3 (2.88%) HTTPS
5 3 (2.88%) SAN
6 2 (1.92%) Network Security
6 2 (1.92%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (1.92%) SSL
6 2 (1.92%) VSAN
7 1 (0.96%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.96%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (0.96%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.96%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (0.96%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (0.96%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.96%) VLAN
7 1 (0.96%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.58%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (7.69%) Power BI
3 5 (4.81%) MySQL
3 5 (4.81%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.85%) Metadata
4 4 (3.85%) Neo4j
5 3 (2.88%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.92%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.92%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.92%) DataStage
6 2 (1.92%) DB2
7 1 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.96%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.96%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.96%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.96%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.96%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.96%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 27 (25.96%) Jenkins
2 24 (23.08%) GitLab
2 24 (23.08%) JIRA
3 13 (12.50%) Selenium
4 12 (11.54%) Cucumber
4 12 (11.54%) REST Assured
5 11 (10.58%) Postman
6 7 (6.73%) Git
7 5 (4.81%) TestRail
8 4 (3.85%) Gatling
8 4 (3.85%) JMeter
8 4 (3.85%) LoadRunner
8 4 (3.85%) NeoLoad
9 3 (2.88%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.96%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.96%) JUnit
10 1 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.96%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.96%) Travis CI
10 1 (0.96%) Zephyr
General
1 48 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 26 (25.00%) Finance
3 21 (20.19%) Banking
4 7 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.81%) Legal
5 5 (4.81%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (4.81%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.85%) Law
7 3 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.92%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.96%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (17.31%) Architect
2 16 (15.38%) Lead
3 9 (8.65%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (8.65%) Test Automation Engineer
3 9 (8.65%) Test Engineer
4 8 (7.69%) Developer
5 6 (5.77%) Automation Test Lead
5 6 (5.77%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (4.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 5 (4.81%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 5 (4.81%) Consultant
6 5 (4.81%) Senior
6 5 (4.81%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (4.81%) Test Architect
6 5 (4.81%) Test Automation Architect
7 4 (3.85%) Lead Architect
7 4 (3.85%) Product Owner
7 4 (3.85%) Project Manager
7 4 (3.85%) Test Leader
8 3 (2.88%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (25.00%) REST
2 23 (22.12%) LDAP
3 22 (21.15%) OpenID
4 17 (16.35%) SailPoint
5 8 (7.69%) OAuth
6 7 (6.73%) .NET
6 7 (6.73%) Middleware
6 7 (6.73%) SAML
7 4 (3.85%) Hugging Face
7 4 (3.85%) JSON
7 4 (3.85%) Kafka
7 4 (3.85%) OpenCV
7 4 (3.85%) Playwright
7 4 (3.85%) PyTorch
7 4 (3.85%) Regular Expression
7 4 (3.85%) SpaCy
7 4 (3.85%) Spring Boot
7 4 (3.85%) TensorFlow
7 4 (3.85%) XML
8 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 12 (11.54%) Cloud Native
3 9 (8.65%) Onboarding
4 7 (6.73%) Data Centre
4 7 (6.73%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.85%) IoT
6 3 (2.88%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.88%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.92%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.92%) FlexPod
7 2 (1.92%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.96%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.96%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.96%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.96%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.96%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.96%) RSA SecurID
8 1 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (12.50%) Linux
2 6 (5.77%) Windows
3 5 (4.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.85%) Unix
4 4 (3.85%) VMS
5 2 (1.92%) CoreOS
5 2 (1.92%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.96%) CentOS
6 1 (0.96%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.96%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (52.88%) DevOps
2 46 (44.23%) CI/CD
3 28 (26.92%) Agile
4 24 (23.08%) Containerisation
5 21 (20.19%) Test Automation
6 18 (17.31%) Migration
6 18 (17.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 17 (16.35%) Identity Access Management
7 17 (16.35%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (16.35%) Roadmaps
7 17 (16.35%) Stakeholder Management
8 16 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
8 16 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (14.42%) API Testing
9 15 (14.42%) Data Ingestion
10 14 (13.46%) ETL
10 14 (13.46%) Test Strategy
11 13 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
12 12 (11.54%) AI
12 12 (11.54%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 33 (31.73%) Python
2 28 (26.92%) SQL
3 26 (25.00%) Java
4 12 (11.54%) PowerShell
5 11 (10.58%) Bash
6 7 (6.73%) JavaScript
7 5 (4.81%) PHP
8 4 (3.85%) Cypher
8 4 (3.85%) Go
8 4 (3.85%) Groovy
8 4 (3.85%) Scala
8 4 (3.85%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.88%) Bicep
10 2 (1.92%) C#
10 2 (1.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (4.81%) Degree
1 5 (4.81%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (4.81%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.88%) CEH
2 3 (2.88%) CISM
2 3 (2.88%) CISSP
2 3 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (2.88%) GIAC
2 3 (2.88%) GWAPT
2 3 (2.88%) SAP Certification
3 2 (1.92%) OCP
3 2 (1.92%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (0.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (0.96%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.96%) CCA
4 1 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.96%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (0.96%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.96%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.65%) QA
2 4 (3.85%) GDPR
2 4 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.85%) SLA
3 3 (2.88%) HIPAA
3 3 (2.88%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.96%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.96%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.96%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.96%) GRC
5 1 (0.96%) NIST
5 1 (0.96%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (13.46%) Docker
2 11 (10.58%) Active Directory
2 11 (10.58%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (5.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (4.81%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 4 (3.85%) vSphere
6 3 (2.88%) NFS
7 2 (1.92%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.96%) Ceph
8 1 (0.96%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.96%) KVM
8 1 (0.96%) QEMU
8 1 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.96%) XenApp
8 1 (0.96%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 33 (31.73%) Kubernetes
2 23 (22.12%) Terraform
3 19 (18.27%) Ansible
4 8 (7.69%) Grafana
5 4 (3.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (3.85%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.92%) Argo
6 2 (1.92%) CSIRT
6 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.92%) SnapMirror
7 1 (0.96%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.96%) Kibana
7 1 (0.96%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.96%) logstash
7 1 (0.96%) Podman
7 1 (0.96%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.96%) Puppet
7 1 (0.96%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 20 (19.23%) Microsoft
1 20 (19.23%) ServiceNow
2 18 (17.31%) Google
3 9 (8.65%) F5
4 8 (7.69%) Oracle
5 7 (6.73%) OpenAI
6 6 (5.77%) Splunk
6 6 (5.77%) VMware
7 5 (4.81%) Red Hat
8 4 (3.85%) Alibaba
8 4 (3.85%) NetApp
8 4 (3.85%) SAP
9 3 (2.88%) AppDynamics
9 3 (2.88%) Imperva
9 3 (2.88%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.92%) Cisco
10 2 (1.92%) Delphix
10 2 (1.92%) Informatica
10 2 (1.92%) Okta
10 2 (1.92%) Ping Identity